Steven Carlip (University of California at D Department of Physics

General Relativity

A Concise Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a short textbook on general relativity and gravitation aimed at readers with a broad range of interests in physics, from cosmology to high energy physics to condensed matter. The approach is "physics first": readers move quickly to the calculation of observational predictions and only then return to mathematical foundations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780198822165
• ISBN-10: 0198822162
• Artikelnr.: 54684103

Autorenporträt

Steven Carlip received an undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard in 1975. After seven years as a printer, editor, factory worker, and activist, he returned to graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1987. Following a stint as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he joined the faculty of the University of California at Davis, where he has remained since. His main research focus is quantum gravity, but he has also worked on classical general relativity, quantum field theory, and the interface between physics and topology.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Gravity as geometry
2 Geodesics
3 Geodesics in the Solar System
4 Manifolds and tensors
5 Derivatives and curvature
6 The Einstein field equations
7 The stress-energy tensor
8 The weak field approximation
9 Gravitational waves
10 Black holes
11 Cosmology
12 Next steps
Appendix A Mathematical details